Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Because they are open source. They kind of invented this business model. Acquia, Inc.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

WebVan went bankrupt in 2001 after burning through $1 billion on warehouses, inventory systems and fleet delivery trucks. They didn’t validate their business model before investing so much in it and under-estimated the “last mile” problem. Consider open-sourcing certain aspects of your platform.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. After the dot.com bubble collapsed, venture investors spent the next three years doing triage, sorting through the rubble to find companies that weren’t bleeding cash and could actually be turned into businesses. The IPO offering document became the playbook for startups.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Im trying to create a technology enabled recruiting service for an unproven business model. Even though the business is making money now, its still a big risk for anyone involved. Or Gimp, or the 1000s of other open source projects, built for free by software engineers. Not business people, software engineers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. The community they had developed was extremely valuable and is what differentiated StackOverflow from the free, open source alternatives that were created in response to StackExchange. Jeff Atwood had a community of people built up from his blog.

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